Monday, August 04, 2008

Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed explosives into their barracks today, killing 16 officers at a restive Chinese province bordering Central Asia, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

The attack at Xinjiang province came just four days before the start of the Beijing Olympics — an event that has put security forces nationwide on alert and that at least one militant Muslim group has vowed to disrupt. Xinhua, citing local police, called it a "suspected terrorist attack."